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Offshore development has been embraced by the vast majority of commercial software vendors and enterprise application development groups. Why? Because a world flattened by globalization makes it possible to improve competitiveness by taking advantage of the easy exchange of low-cost, high-quality technical skills.

Before moving to 8x8, MOBI had a premises-based telephone and contact center system. “We had a lot of points of failure inside of our building. And because our help desk and contact center is so critical we absolutely had to do something about it.”
Mobi wanted one system to handle all interactions with their customers, primarily phone calls and instant messaging.
According to Mobi, “What stood out about 8x8 was that everything was managed under one roof.” Mobi has been able to achieve this with 8x8’s integrated Virtual Office and Virtual Contact Center solutions.

“It’s not what you know. It’s who you know.”
We’ve all heard the phrase. We all understand there’s truth to it. But ask yourself: would you recommend
or hire everyone you know? No way.
Having the right connections is important to advancing your career. But it’s only half the battle.
What really creates opportunity is defining your personal brand to your employer, to your network, to the
market. It’s taking that moment when you make a great impression and scaling it to the larger world.
This guide presents different approaches real professionals are using to build their brands. You’ll see tips
and strategies that you can use to become an in-demand finance leader, including a system we developed
called the ROLE Model of personal branding.
In the age of effortless connection, cultivating a personal brand is essential. It’s not just who you know.
It’s what they know you can do.

In recent years, Europe has seen a real boost in the building of renewable generation capacity. Germany is a notable example of a country with significant growth in renewables. As shown in Figure 1 below, since 2000, the average annual growth of installed capacity in Germany has been more than 15 percent, reaching 18-20 percent between 2009 and 2010.
For the most part, favorable conditions for the development of renewables have been caused by support schemes, previously based on feed-in-tariffs and competitive auctions. Now the country has reached a point where renewables account for around 53 percent of installed capacity and around 36 percent share in total electricity demand, already exceeding the 2020 target of 35 percent.
To find out more download this whitepaper today!

In recent years, Europe has seen a real boost in the building of renewable generation capacity. Germany is a notable example of a country with significant growth in renewables. As shown in Figure 1 below, since 2000, the average annual growth of installed capacity in Germany has been more than 15 percent, reaching 18-20 percent between 2009 and 2010. For the most part, favorable conditions for the development of renewables have been caused by support schemes, previously based on feed-in-tariffs and competitive auctions. Now the country has reached a point where renewables account for around 53 percent of installed capacity and around 36 percent share in total electricity demand, already exceeding the 2020 target of 35 percent.

In a business environment where being able to build and maintain a solid brand reputation and lasting relationships with your customers is essential for ongoing success, effective compliance training for team members is critical. Assembling quality course content, either through purchasing off-the-shelf compliance courseware or developing training material in-house or in partnership with an external developer, and delivering that material in a consistent manner, can help protect your organization and minimize the damage from compliance transgressions.

You’re ideating while executing. With funding in hand, you must deliver. Patience? Well, it’s nonexistent. If this sounds familiar, you’re likely one of many energetic companies vying to grab the best talent possible to deliver on your mission. How well your workforce executes will depend on the quality of your onboarding and employee development.
By building an eLearning program on a Learning Management System (LMS), you’ll get newbies up to speed and free your team to focus on the heavy brain work. Here’s how the right LMS will pay off bigtime ROI.

Today’s workforce is fundamentally changing. Organizations are flatter, more agile, and require even better retention strategies. HR professionals and business leaders agree on the importance of attracting, retaining, and cultivating top talent. An employee rewards and recognition program that has the buy-in and support of business leaders can transform your corporate culture, making your organization a great place to work, building your brand as a top employer, delighting your customers with your service, and reaping the financial benefits that come from Employee Success. Download this white paper, Obtaining executive buy-in for recognition programs, and obtain best practices to sell the vision of a rewards and recognition program to your CFO.

Read this paper from Acquia and learn about the underlying drivers for enterprise social software; key requirements and how Drupal meets those; how open source development outpaces proprietary alternatives; examples of communities built with Drupal and Acquia.

Way back in 1999—a thousand years ago in Internet years—a writer and designer, named Darcy DiNucci, coined the phrase Web 2.0. This marked the beginning of the web as a social experience, eventually altering commerce so that today customers can be brand advocates who play a crucial role in building your business.
You already know that your customers are talking about your brand on social media platforms, posting images from your product pages to Pinterest, and checking reviews. The brick-and-mortar and virtual commerce experiences have become so intertwined that customers sometimes make an online purchase while standing in your store.
So, there's no question that all commerce today is social, and this ebook will dive deeper into that concept.

This article, published by Target Marketing in April 2008, examines principles and practices associated with acquisition e-mail, which also apply to CRM programs, that are often overlooked by marketers when building their e-mail strategies. These fundamentals serve as strategies to consider and employ to yield higher response rates and a more effective e-mail marketing effort.

Content marketing is one of the highest priorities for today’s marketers, with growth rates for content development and distribution skyrocketing. According to the Content Marketing Institute, for example, 70 percent of marketers are investing more in content marketing than ever before. A recent research report from global market intelligence firm IDC further underscores the point, noting that “building out content marketing as an organizational competency” is one of CMOs’ most important initiatives, second only to measuring ROI. Read this white paper to learn more about the Global Content Impact Index.

From deliverability to conversion - the quality of your list underwrites your email marketing success. But it's not easy to build a great list, and it's no snap to maintain it. Five of the foremost experts in the field held a powwow; we share the resu

Lead scoring is a key missing link in many B2B marketing strategies. A growing number of B2B marketers understand this vital role lead scoring plays in the marketing process. Yet they still face challenges getting started with lead scoring and learning how to generate a measureable ROI from their efforts. In this whitepaper you will learn seven foundational steps your company can take to set up a functional and cost-effective lead scoring strategy. These include understanding the fundamentals of lead scoring; learning how to identify the traits that define your ideal sales prospects; and building a system that will grow with your organization over time.

People buy from people, not companies. Next to events and other face-to-face methods, social media is the best channel for building meaningful connections with your prospects. This eBook explains the five key steps to use social selling to build relationships that last, provide value, demonstrate consistency, and are mutually beneficial.

Landing pages are the foundation that supports successful inbound marketing campaigns. Once you’ve done all the work of attracting visitors to your site, they’re the key to making the connection – and getting the conversion.

Good employees help build a business' customer base, bad employees can destroy it, so it is imperative that each business trains their team in exactly what is expected and required from them. Download this paper for 5 mistakes that businesses typically make when building their team.

Consumers demand – no, expect – marketers to deliver highly relevant communications. Yet, daily headlines about security and privacy keep them on guard about use of their personal information. How do you reconcile the personalization privacy paradox?
Guest speaker, Forrester Research, Inc.’s Fatemeh Khatibloo and Bryan Throckmorton of Acxiom will offer fresh findings on customer expectations regarding privacy and examples of how companies are building transparency and trust – and differentiating themselves – with preference centers that put more control in the hands of customers.

Cloud computing generated $100 billion in 2012, which is estimated to be $127 billion by 2017 and an impressive $500 billion by 2020. What was once an innovative technology of the future is now the standard way of doing business.
The challenge for companies is to leverage what still works well from
their in-house legacy infrastructure and augment that with a new cloudbased infrastructure to meet their future needs. Learn how to transition to advanced cloud usage and build a strong team for your
company.

Building an online marketing strategy to drive campaign effectiveness and business success. This paper highlights the ingredients involved in a successful MCM strategy and introduces how the next-generation online marketing platform can help achieve your MCM goals.

One of the key objectives of Adobe’s current advertising campaign is to explode the myth that ‘managing websites is hell’. We believe that in this day and age, the idea that website management is a nightmare should be a thing of the past.

Discover this year’s biggest social marketing trends in our Social Intelligence Report. You’ll learn where the greatest opportunities are in paid, earned, and owned social—and you’ll discover new tools and strategies for building stronger engagement and better results.

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